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O compatibilismo incompatibilista de Kant: a liberdade nos interstícios do determinismo

2021; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARAÍBA; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18012/arf.v8i2.58989

2358-8470

Francisco das Chagas de Oliveira Freire,

Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations

The present article intends to outline Kant's incompatibilism compatibilism. Kant defends, besides the compatibility of freedom with determinism, the compatibility of compatibilism with incompatibilism. Although commonplace, the discussion regarding the character of compatibilism or incompatibilism in an exclusionary sense is unproductive and doomed to failure. The Kantian solution implies the famous and problematic two-world theory. Are we citizens of two worlds or do we attribute two meanings to the world in which we are immersed? The solubility of the problem of accommodation between freedom and determinism demanded a profound transformation in the concept of rationality. Kantian rationality is theoretical, practical, aesthetic and teleological and each discursive dimension presents different principles and different conditions of legitimacy. The hermeneutic category Übergang [passage] favours the understanding of the discursive transit between the various dimensions of rationality. Key concepts are taken in different meanings in different perspectives of rationality. Ignoring complex rationality inevitably leads to aporia and paradox.